Where You Find It (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Janice Galloway
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Scotland and London
- Genres: Short fiction, Women’s literature
- Subjects: Twenty-first century, Class consciousness, England or English people, Feminism, Women’s issues, Women, London, Scotland or Scottish people, Space and time, Great Britain, 2000’s
- Locales: London, England, Scotland
The fact that Janice Galloway’s Where You Find It was published for the first time in the United States six years after it first appeared in Britain says a great deal about the United States’ lack of interest in one of the hottest topics in Britain in the 1990’s, contemporary Scottish literature. Trainspotting—both Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel and Danny Boyle’s 1997 film—aside, Scotland to most Americans means little more than kilts and bagpipes, shortbread and single malt, the movies Braveheart (1995) and Rob Roy (1995). The Irish, on the other...
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